Sunday April 25, 2010 Brunch Adopt-a-Highway

[Dusty]

This event is in need of a host.

[Chris and Sarah]

Chris and Sarah

Adopt-a-Highway Program

[Chris and Sarah]

The Adopt-a-Highway Program 2010 is only open to 20 volunteers per MnDOT rules.  All volunteers/participants must attend Spring Clean-up on Sunday, April 18th to watch a 12 min Safety video and sign the sign-up sheet.





8:00 am  Meet at below address

MPFC Parking Lot (grocery store)
1500 Howard Ave
Maple Plain, MN 55359

8:30 am Begin Clean-Up

I allowed for 2.5 hours to clean the highway.

11:00 am Finish Clean-Up

Approx 1 hour scenic drive to lunch

12:00 pm  Lunch Reservation

The Lookout Bar and Grill
8672 Pineview Lane North
Maple Grove, MN 55369

http://www.lookoutbarandgrill.com/

For those who would like to participate in the drive/lunch and not cleaning the highway, PLEASE RSVP by April 18th, 2010 Your attendance is not required at the Spring Clean-Up.

10:30am Arrival/Meet

MPFC Parking Lot (grocery store)
1500 Howard Ave
Maple Plain, MN 55359

11:00 am Depart for the Drive/Lunch


Chris and Sarah

612.227.7242
veedub1022@hotmail.com

[Darrel]

Here is the traing film from the Minnesota Department of Transportation on what to do and not do while picking up trash.

http://www.miataclubmn.com/clips/clips/Adopt-a-Highway.wmv

[Chris and Sarah]

Good Morning, Adopt-a-Highway volunteers!

Looking at the Weather Channel's hour by hour, there is only a 20% chance of rain in Maple Plain from 8-12. So I'm going to go on with the clean up. But I'll leave it up to you if you want to participate. But, please consider the drive and lunch.

Thank you

Chris and Sarah

[DragonSlayer]

With all the events that have come rapid fire over the past coiple of weeks, I wanted to take a moment to thank Chris Holt for organizing the Adopt-A-Highway event.  Even with a little rain, I think everyone involved had a good time.  To commemorate the day, Chris wrote a poem and I think I have his permission to post it here: (it was too good to keep in hiding)

Our clean-up went off without a hitch, but spent the morning in the ditch.

You may have head Chris holler, when he found one dollar.

Our gloves were blue, did anyone happen to find a shoe?

The weather was not the best, Bill and Andrea had to make their vest.

Our shoes were damp, nobody seemed to have a cramp.

I think we walked four miles, but then we had twenty smiles!

We collected a dollar thirteen, then picked up a wrapper for Dentyne.

For a picture we posed, but most of our road had been closed.

To keep your bag open use a stick, or use Darrel’s tool to help you pick.

For forty-five minutes we drove, the end of our route was Maple Grove.

Thirty four bags were filled, nobody touched what had been killed.

At The Lookout we did eat, but by then we had dry feet!


Chris

(posted by Mike Simmons)